Warp-knitted lace strip, material fabric, and manufacturing method thereof

Abstract

This invention is concerned with a new textile product in the form of a lace strip which is entirely warp-knitted with sinuate scallops. The scallops are manufactured from bent scallop-forming yarns and picots of which one end protrudes outwardly in a U-shape configuration. The novel lace strips are manufactured by forming chain stitch lines in step-like indentation by overlapping the scallop-forming yarns and passing the yarns in turn through a plurality of needles. Simultaneously picot-forming yarns are transversely positioned to produce protrusions from the scallops. In order to separate the scallops and their picots, the parts of the knitted fabric to be readily separated, said scallops and attached picots are knitted to soluble yarns which are subsequently dissolved to facilitate separation.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. The method of manufacturing an entirely warp-knitted lace strip into a knit portion which comprises: forming U-shaped picots from insoluble yarns which protrude from the edges of said scallops by knitting same into the edges of the scallops,   providing soluble fabric portions adjacent to said insoluble scallop yarns and said insoluble picot yarns, and   dissolving said soluble fabric portions to separate the scallops and picot portions.